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Rule By Elites Has Been Tried – And Failed

July 30th, 2010 · Comments Off

Says Thomas Sowell: Many of the wonderful-sounding ideas that have been tried as government policies have failed disastrously. Because so few people bother to study history, often the same ideas and policies have been tried again, either in another country or in the same country at a later time — and with the same disastrous [...]

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Tags: Freedom/Independence · Government · Money · Socialism · Taxes · The Left · The US

Be Careful Buying Gold or Silver

July 20th, 2010 · Comments Off

Via EconomicPolicyJournal.com: They have passed the health bill, they have passed the financial regulations bill and they have snuck stuff into the stimulus package bills. They are going to track your money and your body. Here’s the first few things they are doing. This is step one. It will only get worse from here. “…the [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Freedom/Independence · Government · Money · Socialism · The Left · The US

To The 66 Million Folks That Voted For Obama …

July 10th, 2010 · Comments Off

You have an opportunity to say you made an error. Spread The Word:

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Tags: Freedom/Independence · Government · Health care · Money · Race · Socialism · Taxes · The Left · The US

Berwick Able To Create Law?

July 8th, 2010 · Comments Off

Says USA Today: The pediatrician and Harvard University professor President Obama appointed Wednesday to run Medicare and Medicaid will play a central role in implementing the nation’s new health care law, predecessors and outside experts said. Donald Berwick, who Obama named to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, drew praise from top medical [...]

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Tags: Government · Health care · Socialism · Taxes · The Left · The US

Just A Reminder …

June 26th, 2010 · Comments Off

… that there are 128 days until the November elections. Spread The Word:

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Tags: Freedom/Independence · Government · Socialism · The Left · The Right · The US

The Stealth Class War

June 10th, 2010 · Comments Off

From the Tenth Amendment Center: Folks…. Issues are for the states, not for Washington. As soon as we allow the federal government to skip over the question, “Should we do something?” directly to the question, “What should we do?”, on an issue for which there is no Constitutional authority, we have lost important ground, even [...]

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Tags: Freedom/Independence · Government · Socialism · The Left · The Right · The US

Welcome To Socialism

May 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Via USAToday: Paychecks from private business shrank to their smallest share of personal income in U.S. history during the first quarter of this year, a USA TODAY analysis of government data finds. At the same time, government-provided benefits — from Social Security, unemployment insurance, food stamps and other programs — rose to a record high [...]

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Tags: Freedom/Independence · Government · Money · Socialism · Taxes · The US

America’s new culture war: Free enterprise vs. government control

May 24th, 2010 · Comments Off

By Arthur C. Brooks at The Washington Post: America faces a new culture war. This is not the culture war of the 1990s. It is not a fight over guns, gays or abortion. Those old battles have been eclipsed by a new struggle between two competing visions of the country’s future. In one, America will [...]

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Tags: Freedom/Independence · Government · Money · Socialism · Taxes · The Left · The Right · The US

Preparing For SHTF

May 21st, 2010 · Comments Off

Says Chuck Roger: If attempts to cut education spending can send thuggish teachers’ unions into the streets and a tough Arizona law on illegal immigration can send unions and race baiters screaming, what will happen if Washington politicians ever find the spine to do what has to be done to cut Welfare, Social Security, Medicare, [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Freedom/Independence · Government · Guns · Immigration · Insurance · Money · SHTF / Survival · Socialism · Taxes · The Left · The Right · The US

Ben Stein Figured Him Out

March 30th, 2010 · Comments Off

Found at The American Spectator: Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed? Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths: The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted for a pig in a poke in 2008. They wanted so much to believe [...]

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Tags: Freedom/Independence · Government · Health · Insurance · Money · Socialism · Taxes · The Left · The US

Why ObamaCare = Failure

March 16th, 2010 · Comments Off

Says Kim Strassel at The Wall Street Journal: No way around it, the politics of ObamaCare are bad. So bad that it lends credence to the belief that some in the White House and Congress are far more ideologically interested in establishing European-style health care than they are the public’s will or their party’s electoral [...]

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Tags: Government · Insurance · Socialism · The Left · The US

Obama: The Audacity Of Socialism

February 26th, 2010 · Comments Off

Via FOX News: President Barack Obama strongly signaled that Democrats will move forward on a health care overhaul with or without Republicans, preparing his party for a fight whose political outcome will rest with voters in November. Delivering his closing argument at a 7-1/2-hour televised policy marathon Thursday, Obama told Republicans he welcomes their ideas [...]

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Tags: Election · Government · Health · Insurance · Politics · Socialism · The Left · The Right · The US

Obama’s Big Government

February 5th, 2010 · Comments Off

Via The Washington Times: The era of big government has returned with a vengeance, in the form of the largest federal work force in modern history. The Obama administration says the government will grow to 2.15 million employees this year, topping 2 million for the first time since President Clinton declared that “the era of [...]

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Tags: Government · Money · Socialism · Taxes · The Left · The US

Words Of Warning

February 2nd, 2010 · Comments Off

From Theodore Haas, a Holocaust survivor that was imprisoned at Dachau, in an interview with Aaron Zelman, founder, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership: Aaron Zelman: It appears the Liberal left in America is tolerating, and sometimes espousing anti-Semitism. Why do you think so many Jews still support the leftist form of Liberalism? Theodore [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Government · Guns · Socialism · The Left · The US

Words Of Warning

January 31st, 2010 · Comments Off

From Theodore Haas, a Holocaust survivor that was imprisoned at Dachau, in an interview with Aaron Zelman, founder, Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership: Aaron Zelman: What message do you have for ultra-Liberal organizations and individuals who want America disarmed? Theodore Haas: Their ignorance is pitiful — their lives have been too easy. Had [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Government · Guns · Socialism · The Left · The US